Rick Moran has an excellent post up about being branded a “racist,” and the Procrustean bed of lefty interpretation. He mentions Allah Pundit, and Jeff Goldstein, in particular, as having articulated the defense against such practices.
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August 4, 2008
Lefty Interpretive Teleology [Dan Collins]
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Comment by Sdferr on 8/4 @ 10:11 am #
And what is the “telos” toward which they aim? Power.
Comment by JD on 8/4 @ 11:42 am #
I will not even bother denouncing or condemning anyone here. It would be redundant and superfluous.
Comment by Squid on 8/4 @ 12:27 pm #
And redundant, too.
Comment by psycho... on 8/4 @ 12:28 pm #
I denounce all users of metaphysical terms for psychological things. Again.
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/4 @ 12:45 pm #
Goal drivenness? Freud would probably have coined something like . . . oh, I don’t know . . . thanatos.
Comment by Semanticleo on 8/4 @ 3:02 pm #
After wading through Moron’s epistle of self-deprecation and mea-culpas, he finally gets to the point; everyone is unfairly labeling him and other righties as racist.
Plausible Denialists make their bones on innuendo which can be interpreted according to the mindset. Just an example of one who
REGULARLY hides in the thicket of weasel words is Glenn Reynolds.
It is all about the so called innocent phrase which timbers on SUGGESTION.
I don’t know anyone who is proud to be a racist, do you? If you have
pride in your ideology you shout it from the rooftops. But I do see a lot of shit which propagates the ugly notions which keep us tied up
in the past. Some people have an agenda which benefits from keeping those fires stoked. Some here do not engage in that type of rhetoric.
They deserve credit for that.
Comment by Sdferr on 8/4 @ 3:14 pm #
That is a comedy classic there semanticleo. The master of obscurantism bemoaning the weasel word thicket of Glenn Reynolds, who couldn’t possibly be more clear. Hilarious, I tells ya, brilliant.
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 8/4 @ 3:21 pm #
Semanticleo: “Plausible Denialists make their bones on innuendo which can be interpreted according to the mindset. Just an example of one who
REGULARLY hides in the thicket of weasel words is Glenn Reynolds.
It is all about the so called innocent phrase which timbers on SUGGESTION.”
come now, sometimes an manual earth-moving tool is just a manual earth-moving tool…
Semanticleo: “I don’t know anyone who is proud to be a racist, do you?”
Met a couple, some white, some black. You should get out a little more — travel is broadening, as they say.
Semanticleo: “If you have pride in your ideology you shout it from the rooftops. But I do see a lot of shit which propagates the ugly notions which keep us tied up in the past. Some people have an agenda which benefits from keeping those fires stoked.”
Al Sharpton… Jesse Jackson… Malik Zulu Shabazz… the entire membership of the New African Nation…
Comment by JD on 8/4 @ 3:28 pm #
Semen – Try English, or quit looking to your short-bus friends for affirmation.
Comment by B Moe on 8/4 @ 3:29 pm #
I don’t know anyone who is proud to be a racist, do you?
Uh, yeah.
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/
http://www.aryan-nations.org/
That is what real racism looks like.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/4 @ 3:54 pm #
What if there was a race of super-humans, with special powers, sent to us to exact change in the way we do everything? You know, a race of super-humans that are symbols of us returning to our better traditions. Like, the race of super-humans that we’ve been waiting for all along. Would it be racist to mention that they were members of a race of super-humans?
Comment by Orack Barama on 8/4 @ 3:54 pm #
I knew a preacher once who was anti-white and anti-American at the same time. Used to spout off all the time about how Whitey was keeping everybody down, and how the government invented AIDS to kill all the good black folks.
I hung out with the guy a lot. He was an inspiration to me; in fact, his racist, anti-American sermon provided the title to a book I once wrote. He officiated my wedding, and baptized my kids, and we attended his church regularly for twenty years.
I just wish I could be as fearless as he is when it comes to loudly proclaiming my beliefs.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 8/4 @ 3:57 pm #
I think semen should explain it to us in terms of Jonny Quest episodes, but only if it uses the real ones, not those crappy 90s remakes.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/4 @ 4:00 pm #
Says the moron who couldn’t write a clear, concise statement of there were a gun to his head.
Comment by Ric Locke on 8/4 @ 4:13 pm #
Which gets us right back to Jeff’s raison d’etre: intentionalism.
What Semanticleo is telling us is that Reynolds only makes marks. He has no control over what they signify; only Semanticleo, Magistra of Meaning, can determine that. F* what he wrote, f* the denotative meaning of the words — it’s taking Humpty Dumpty one step farther: when you say something, it means what Semanticleo takes it to mean, neither more nor less.
I haven’t, in the past, been proud to exhibit racism. I am, however, beginning to be proud to exhibit “racism” as defined by Semanticleo and the rest of the leftoids, because every single classical-liberal attitude and ideal, from “equal opportunity under the law” to liberté, egalité, fraternité is immediately so labeled. I recommend that you adopt the same attitude; it will save time.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by B Moe on 8/4 @ 4:21 pm #
I haven’t, in the past, been proud to exhibit racism. I am, however, beginning to be proud to exhibit “racism†as defined by Semanticleo and the rest of the leftoids…
I have lately completely avoided the word racism because the definition has been so diluted as to be meaningless, I hadn’t considered embracing the change to illustrate the point. Now there is some change I might could believe in.
Comment by Dan Collins on 8/4 @ 4:29 pm #
Jeff’s raison d’etre? I always thought that it had something to do with scotch.
Comment by urthshu on 8/4 @ 4:33 pm #
I won’t vote for O! b/c he’s half-white. Can’t trust those ofays for nuthin’, I say.
Comment by urthshu on 8/4 @ 4:36 pm #
Really, though, with the infinitesimal titers of “racism” that the Left can apparently detect, we need some sorta periodic table of bigotry set up.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/4 @ 5:06 pm #
Has anyone noticed that since Jeff has scaled back from posting again, semen has been commenting more often? We know it’s a moron. We know it has never learned to communicate effectively. We know it is an elitist prick. We, now, know that it’s a coward. What a resume.
Comment by Semanticleo on 8/4 @ 7:27 pm #
“Has anyone noticed that since Jeff has scaled back from posting again, semen has been commenting more often? We know it’s a moron. We know it has never learned to communicate effectively. We know it is an elitist prick. We, now, know that it’s a coward. What a resume.”
Obtuse Ostrich;
I post when I have the time and the interest in the subject at hand.
Your posts, however, have the frequency of your hard-ons; seldom seen and never heard.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/4 @ 7:28 pm #
that’s just weird
Comment by happyfeet on 8/4 @ 7:28 pm #
big weirdo
Comment by Semanticleo on 8/4 @ 7:34 pm #
Ah’m crestfallen, Suh!
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/4 @ 7:57 pm #
Hmmm, I’ve never posted here, so I’m not sure where you’re going with that semen. And I comment infrequently as I really can’t add much. As far as my hard-ons go (please keep your mind off of them, though), they are majestic and beautiful. But, the fact remains, my little loon. Jeff owns you and you’re a coward. The truth shall set you free…
Comment by cybrludite on 8/4 @ 9:07 pm #
Semanticleo,
Every actual racist (as in folks who hate people because of the amount of melenin in their skin) I’ve ever met have been quite proud of their ignorant positions, and have shown no reluctance whatsoever in making them known. The lefties looking for the faintest trace of racism in righties’ word choice resemble nothing so much as Matthew Hopkins claiming a girl was a witch because a fly happened to land on her.
Comment by TmjUtah on 8/4 @ 10:05 pm #
Geeze.
I’ve been a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, Christianist, warmonger, fascist, gun nut, misogynist, child starver, and a proponent of forcing seniors to eat pet food ever since I cast my first vote in a presidential election.
As the years have gone by I’ve noticed that I see more folks from the other side of the aisle come over and vote for the people I do than do folks like me become Leftists/Democrats/Greens.
I have decided that my side must be having more fun. That’s the only motive driving our society, isn’t it? All the best newspapers and philosophers say that’s all America is about any more. Right?
Comment by Jeff Y. on 8/5 @ 3:13 am #
Bro, teleology? They deny the telos. They are all about efficient causes now. Dialectical materialism and all that.
They are Thrasymachus in the large. The City of Luxury, with couches of Deconstruction and relishes of delicious lies in the Foucault tradition.
In more mundane words, the bitches want to run the USA like a giant college campus.
Fuck that shit. I read the Prior Analytics. I know better.
Comment by SDN on 8/5 @ 6:09 am #
I’ve reached the point with “racism” accusations on the personal level that I got to with accusations of “American imperialism” on the international one: OK, if we’re going to get all the bad effects of being labeled this way no matter what the truth is, then let’s just go ahead and match the action to the label. At least we can steal everyone’s oil for my stretch Humvee.
Comment by MarkD on 8/5 @ 10:08 am #
I wonder if “racist” is taken for a vanity plate yet?
Comment by MarkD on 8/5 @ 10:10 am #
“Global Warming Skeptic” is too long.
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